Starlin saves the season

El palo de Starlin Castro pic.twitter.com/W1obI6nDzH

— Enrique Rojas/ESPN (@Enrique_Rojas1) June 22, 2016

Here's a secret - I was ready to give up this afternoon.  If the Yanks couldn't hold on to win a game they led 4-0 against the fucking Rockies with their best pitcher on the mound, I would have found it very hard to motivate myself to believe in this team at all anymore.  They need to pick up a head of steam here and going into an off-day having just been swept at home in a two-game set by Colorado would have definitely swung the buy-sell pendulum the other way.  But for the second time in a week the Yanks came from behind down 4 in the late innings to steal a win (although in this case they're sort of indian givers).

Again it was Big-Game-Beltran, getting the Yanks back in the game with a three-run shot and matching his 2015 homer total in the process.  Again it was Didi, nutting up and slicing a two-out, two-strike single into left-center to tie the game at 8.  And again it was the three guys at the back of the bullpen doing what they do better than anybody - striking people out and not letting anybody do anything at all.

I was legitimately mesmerized when the Yanks came back this past weekend at Minnesota. It was the first time they'd shown any late inning grit all season.  Now that makes it twice in the last five days.  I'm not saying we're about to make the leap, but having some late-game chops was a weapon traditionally used by the old guard and something this team desperately needs going forward if they want to do anything at all.